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An anthology of 16-line sonnets on working-class themes, received with critical acclaim.
Product code: 508860
£3.95
Cohen's prose, song lyrics and poetry interrupted by his provocative, detached commentary, bombarding his own work and the reader with a relentless series of elegant emotional... more
Product code: 22317502
£9.99
A collection of (mainly) grisly beasts out for human blood, ranging from Gocky-Wock the crocodile to Sting-A-Ling the scorpion. Described in verse with all Dahl's usual gusto.
Product code: 22452502
£14.99
A collection of (mainly) grisly beasts out for human blood, ranging from Gocky-Wock the crocodile to Sting-A-Ling the scorpion. Described in verse with all Dahl's usual gusto.
Product code: 22452503
£14.99
Seamus Heaney's collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock/clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twentieth-first... more
Product code: 20559301
£12.99
Unlike women who wrote fiction, most of those who wrote verse have been ignored since their own day. Yet they speak with vigour and immediacy, their moods varied from resentful and... more
Product code: 500366
£20.00
Some of the women poets make their appearance here for the first time. There are brief biographies preceding each work which show the poets' lives are as varied as their work.
Product code: 508954
£5.99
An embarrassing pimple? No spare cash? The heart-stopping thrill of being in love? Whatever it is, your secrets safe. Look inside this book, though, and you just might find a poem... more
Product code: 22599501
£9.99
Paul Durcan was born in Dublin in 1944, of Co. Mayo parents. In 1983 he undertook a tour of the Soviet Union at the invitation of the Union of Societ writers. In May 1985 he was... more
Product code: 508875
£5.30
Allan Ahlberg's new collection of poems and songs adds to his continuing portrait of primary school life. Here you can meet Billy McBone and the Mad Professor's daughter, be amazed... more
Product code: 22604201
£4.99
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